Best Value Open World Survival Craft Games Under $20

The Open World Survival Craft games on Steam games under $20 that deliver the most playtime per dollar: median reviewer hours divided by current price.

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Price divided by median reviewer playtime — how much you pay per hour of gameplay. Lower is better. Reviewers tend to sink more hours in than the average owner, so treat this as an optimistic estimate. Free games are excluded because there's no price to divide by.
  1. 1Starbound$0.04/1hr
  2. 2Terraria$0.10/1hr
  3. 3ARK: Survival Evolved$0.14/1hr
  4. 4TerraTech$0.15/1hr
  5. 5Survivalist: Invisible Strain$0.15/1hr
  6. 6Crashlands$0.19/1hr
  7. 7The Planet Crafter$0.19/1hr
  8. 8Green Hell$0.19/1hr
  9. 9Project Zomboid$0.20/1hr
  10. 10Space Engineers$0.23/1hr
  11. 11The Long Dark$0.23/1hr
  12. 12Outpath$0.25/1hr
  13. 13Subsistence$0.25/1hr
  14. 14ASKA$0.27/1hr
  15. 15Sunkenland$0.30/1hr
  16. 16Eden Crafters$0.32/1hr
  17. 17Mist Survival$0.39/1hr
  18. 18Rising World$0.40/1hr
  19. 19Night of the Dead$0.41/1hr
  20. 20Ostranauts$0.41/1hr
  21. 21Crashlands 2$0.41/1hr
  22. 22Empyrion - Galactic Survival$0.42/1hr
  23. 23Core Keeper$0.42/1hr
  24. 24Necesse$0.42/1hr
  25. 25Don't Starve Together$0.43/1hr
  26. 26SurrounDead$0.47/1hr
  27. 27Dinkum$0.47/1hr
  28. 28Don't Starve$0.51/1hr
  29. 29Raft$0.55/1hr
  30. 30Forever Skies$0.61/1hr
  31. 31Terminus: Zombie Survivors$0.62/1hr
  32. 32Forager$0.63/1hr
  33. 33I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival$0.68/1hr
  34. 34ICARUS$0.69/1hr
  35. 35METAL GEAR SURVIVE$0.72/1hr
  36. 36Aloft$0.76/1hr
  37. 37Nova Lands$0.82/1hr
  38. 38Voidtrain$0.83/1hr
  39. 39The Forest$0.84/1hr
  40. 40Castle Story$0.93/1hr
  41. 41Longvinter$0.95/1hr
  42. 42Volcanoids$1.14/1hr
  43. 43CastleMiner Z$1.14/1hr
  44. 44Tribes of Midgard$1.19/1hr
  45. 45The Front$1.21/1hr
  46. 46DUCKSIDE$1.22/1hr
  47. 47Survive the Nights$1.36/1hr
  48. 48Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition$1.62/1hr
  49. 49Stranded Deep$1.64/1hr
  50. 50Arctico$2.23/1hr
  51. 51DeadPoly$2.97/1hr
  52. 52Badiya: Desert Survival$4.43/1hr

How the math works: we sample each game’s Steam reviewers, take the median of their total recorded playtime (lifetime hours, not hours at the time of review), and divide it by the game’s current price in your selected currency. Reviewers usually sink more hours in than the average owner, so the numbers run generous. Free games aren’t listed because there’s no price to divide by, and a game needs playtime data from at least 20 reviewers before it qualifies. All prices are Steam’s own regional prices, never exchange-rate conversions.